Last Week’s Milestones:

• Clean, readable code
• Use of a text file with difficulty settings and other settings
• Sleeker UI
• Restart function
• Help dialogue
• Players start with a number of lives
• Keep track of game state in dictionary (lives, level, difficulty)
• Add more enemy turtles with increasing dificulty
• Use of imported images (maybe)
• Pause/resume function

I started out by redesigning user interface. I replaced the options on the top that originally allowed the user to change the difficulty (since that will now automatically increase as the player progresses) with a help button and a restart button. The buttons have a thicker outline and are colored in with a light color to make them more visualy pleasing. Although I am still working on making the states of turtle more manageable so that a restart function can be implemented easily, I have created the overall framewok of the code to (hopefully) let the user pause/resume the game at will. This has yet to be tested since the turtles are not done. Overall, I feel that the milestones I have set for myself are reachable and I have added a couple stretch milestones.

Stretch goals:

• Improve enemy turtle AI
• Have power-ups that player can pick up or extra lives

Goals for Tuesday:

• Pause/resume function
• Sleeker UI
• Help dialogue

Goals for Thursday:

• Get pause/resume to function 100% properly
• Have a text file containing settings
• Create a dictionary of game states (current level/difficulty, # of lives, # of enemies)
• Cleanly manage states of turtles so that restart function can reset these states
• Add more enemy turtles

Revisions:

After a little testing I saw that the pause/resume created some weird bugs, so I have moved it to goals for Thursday.